right now the polls have him even with tim kaine and we reached out to tim kaine's office and have not heard back. they keep blowing us off and hopefully we'll hear back, but they just keep blowing us off. and senator, governor, good to have you. what do you think the senate looks like right now, if you had to handicap it? >> well, i think it's very close and all we can do is make sure to win virginia. we have a tight race in virginia, but my wife susan and i are working hard all over virginia and encouraged by the enthusiasm that we see that people envision a better future than what we're having to endure these days. virginians, care about the economy and the threat out of failed washington leadership on sequestration and costing over 200,000 jobs in our defense industries and jobs in virginia being at risk and obviously, our military readiness harmed. you listen to jack welch, he's exactly on target, what we see in virginia is people in washington with the epa regulations outlawing coal which is causing thousands of job losses in communities in southwest virginia. and i'm told virgin